The cloud infrastructure is dominated by several large industry players: AWS, Azure Microsoft and Google Cloud. While some may appear to be artificial intelligence is heading in a similar direction, the founders of Parasail imagine that AI infrastructure will look completely different – and bet on the fate of their company.
Parasail He works with dozens of suppliers to offer graphic processors on demand for corporations and enterprises that need to build AI models and applications. Parasail gives customers access to equipment, including GPU H100, H200, A100 and 4090, for a fraction of costs collected by the company.
“There are basically three cloud providers who run the internet, and it is not as accurately as the Internet is rebuilt when you look at AI,” said Tim Harris, one of the co -founders of Parasail and the general director of SWIFT Navigation. “It is much more fragmented. The face is much more replacement and liquid, so you can run it in a more horizontal nature by nature, and we really tried to do it.”
Harris added: “We did not want a world in which artificial intelligence was controlled from nut soup by hyperslase.”
Harris and general director of Parasail Mike Henry got here up with the idea for a startup a few years ago. Henry, former CPO with Groq, told Techcrunch that he spent a lot of time, wondering what to do to build AI infrastructure that could compete with Nvidia. He said that when he realized that AI infrastructure was quickly built by many players, he saw the opportunity for horizontal movement.
According to Henry, a quick clip of innovation in AI equipment made it difficult for corporations to maintain up.
“We had to really focus on how to do it [this] As simple as it is possible for the customer? “Henry said.
Harris and Henry began the company in 2023, employed the engineering team and began construction at the starting of 2024.
Today, there are loads of suppliers who need to help enterprises and other corporations in building and scaled their AI products. From hyperslavians equivalent to Nvidia and Microsoft, to startups equivalent to AI and Lepton AI, customers have many options.
The founders of Parasail do not think that everyone is one and the same.
Sure, all these suppliers provide GPU and AI infrastructure, said Henry, but believes that the reserved Parasail technology under the hood helps her stand out. This technology combines GPU Parasail from various sources.
Wednesday is an official launch of its platform, but Parasail is already working with dozens of shoppers, including Cycit, Weights and Prejudice and Rasa. The company also collected $ 10 million from the seed round in 2024, which participated from basic projects, threshold ventures, Buckley Ventures and Black Opal Ventures.
To gain a significant market share, ParaSail will have to go to the head with a hyperskar and focus on demand for GPU proceedings. There are reasons to think that it can be so, but there are also signs – like Microsoft cancels some of the data center contracts – that forecasts regarding the AI infrastructure needed could also be barely exaggerated.
“We see literally endlessly [to] Demand, “Harris said. “It really is that customers have difficulty to do it – they have difficulties in scaling of artificial intelligence. The models now get to the place where [companies] It can simply download Open Source models and almost run them, but then the ability to access GPU, access data centers, all optimization … We can do it using a button. “